Rangers sign 6-foot-8 goalie Missiaen, age 20

New York, March 24, 2011 – New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced today that the club has agreed to terms with free agent goaltender Jason Missiaen.

Missiaen, 20, appeared in 53 games with Baie-Comeau Drakkar of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) this season, posting a 10-33-8 record, along with a 3.33 goals against average, an .893 save percentage and one shutout. He ranked third in the league with 1,403 saves and fourth in minutes played with 3,026:06 of ice time in his first QMJHL season. Missiaen made his QMJHL debut on October 1 at Prince Edward Island, and registered his first win with a 19-save effort in a 4-3 victory at Rouyn-Noranda on November 26. He posted a record of 5-3-3, along with a 2.77 goals against average and a .903 save percentage from November 26 at Rouyn-Noranda to December 29 at Chicoutimi. Missiaen also recorded his first QMJHL shutout with a 23-save performance vs. Rouyn-Noranda on February 5.

Prior to joining Baie-Comeau, the 6-8, 220-pounder appeared in 131 contests over four seasons with the Peterborough Petes of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), posting a 48-65-18 record, along with a 3.77 goals against average, a .901 save percentage and three shutouts. He established career-highs in games played (59) and wins (27) in his final season with Peterborough in 2009-10. Missiaen captured the Petes’ Player of the Week Award for the week ending September 20, 2009, winning each of Peterborough’s two games to begin the season while allowing just three goals against for a 1.50 goals against average and stopping 68 of 71 shots for a .958 save percentage. In 2007-08, Missiaen led Peterborough with career-highs in goals against average (3.28) and save percentage (.911). He made his Major Junior debut with Peterborough on October 15, 2006, and recorded his first OHL win with a 43-save effort in a 3-2 win vs. Guelph on February 10, 2007. In addition, Missiaen is 0-7-1 with a 3.50 goals against average and a .914 save percentage in eight career OHL playoff contests with Peterborough. He ranked sixth in the league with a 2.77 goals against average and fifth with a .925 save percentage in four games during the 2010 OHL playoffs.

The Chatham, Ontario native was originally selected as Montreal’s fourth round choice, 116th overall, in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.

I work with a guy who standardly eats his lunch that he brought from home (always ham and cheese on ungodly large slices of white bread) at about 9:30AM. He can’t make it to elevensies.

At elevensies he will take down a bag of Funyuns and at Twosies he will consume his lunch which is always either a steak n cheese or an italian combo (again, ungodly large size) and two bags of chips – one bag of wise chips and a bag of munchos (big grab).

Hey guys, what do you think about the league adding refs that would be outside the glass? Or like, maybe even take one of the two off the ice, and then put him with another 2 off the ice looking in?! …just some weird conversation I was having with a Habs fan…

i’m glad to hear that more people are getting tired
of having Crosby shoved down our collective throats
by the NHL.

surprisingly, the league still hasn’t learned that it needs
to create multiple stars rather than focus on 1
and occasionally 2 with Ovechkin

but Phil cannot deny all the immature actions of
Crosby from multiple dives that are not called throughout
his career to constant whining when the calls — real or imagined —
do not go his way.

and don’t forget the classless act of NOT shaking hands
following the Winter Classic game.

finally, concussions were barely discussed until Crosby
was diagnosed and his occurred via an accidental hit
during the Winter Classic game and then he went another day
and played another game before he was taken out.
his case is MUCH different than players who are victims of
headhunting.

a female saying she’s a Rangers fan
defended cindy as a star that the nhl should promote

as i said, in a follow up email
nothing wrong with promoting him and Ovi as stars.
yes, they are some of the top players in the league despite
how we feel about them
but there are numerous other players out there
who should get that push

when you think of other sports, more than one or two top players
are recalled. the nhl still doesn’t do a good job of correcting that.

Jpg- perhaps NHL needs to recognize that being a great player isn’t sufficient to represent the face of the league. And should include talk more about other players who deserve to be mentioned and promoted for what they do not only on the ice, but off the ice. This, perhaps, is the only major sport that have a lot of players to be proud about, with some rare exceptions.

Manny, that’s weird. I said “Prust”, three times in my mirror, and we shared some hot chocolate, and he told me aboot Michelle Tratchenburg’s orgasmic moans. I told him it should be his official goal song, but he said his girlfriend wouldn’t appreciated it.

ilb, right now or in general? I’m working on a paper that’s due today, but was at my field placement all day helping a client move. I am tired. I cut back so now I just have school, field, and one job. Almost done though!

Miked- yup, but he does it with size. My sense is that they feel they can swing him to the Flyers for Claude Giroux at some point next season. He combines two things the Flyers are always looking for- the goaltender and size. :-)